Duncan Martin
@duncanmartinbc.bsky.social
Formerly Chicken Coop king of Vancouver. Current solar co-op member. Dunc and the Purls, Kings of Yam. Some VT content. he/him 🍉
The Chair Company
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The Chair Company
Whenever CBC is on and Because News starts up, I quickly change the radio to anything else. Today on Co-op Radio I caught Faye from Momentum Canada talking about efforts to stop Danielle Smith from her authoritarian crusade against trans people. Donate here
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November 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Whenever CBC is on and Because News starts up, I quickly change the radio to anything else. Today on Co-op Radio I caught Faye from Momentum Canada talking about efforts to stop Danielle Smith from her authoritarian crusade against trans people. Donate here
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If he's going to rule by illegitemate decree, he should at least have to write them in limerick form
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
If he's going to rule by illegitemate decree, he should at least have to write them in limerick form
I'm glad he "level set" his misuse of "reactionary" while discussing our "core city." Its like listening to someone read a chain of predictive text input channel no problem at all that you are using the aforementioned vestibule and I will be a.....what a smug doofus
Hey all. If you would like to see this morning's interview with Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, I have attached a YouTube link below.
Thank you for watching.
youtu.be/s9Khl0T_BEA?...
Thank you for watching.
youtu.be/s9Khl0T_BEA?...
Vancouver mayor stands by city's budget
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I'm glad he "level set" his misuse of "reactionary" while discussing our "core city." Its like listening to someone read a chain of predictive text input channel no problem at all that you are using the aforementioned vestibule and I will be a.....what a smug doofus
Meanwhile in Canada:
The wealthy financier and the recruiter, seeking to destroy lives just off the coast
The wealthy financier and the recruiter, seeking to destroy lives just off the coast
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Meanwhile in Canada:
The wealthy financier and the recruiter, seeking to destroy lives just off the coast
The wealthy financier and the recruiter, seeking to destroy lives just off the coast
This holiday season,
Don't buy a Tesla
Don't buy Rosemary Rock Salt Bagels
Don't use ChatGPT
Don't buy a Tesla
Don't buy Rosemary Rock Salt Bagels
Don't use ChatGPT
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This holiday season,
Don't buy a Tesla
Don't buy Rosemary Rock Salt Bagels
Don't use ChatGPT
Don't buy a Tesla
Don't buy Rosemary Rock Salt Bagels
Don't use ChatGPT
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The next Vancouver municipal election will be held Oct. 17, 2026.
JUST IN: Ken Sim and ABC have voted through a Budget that makes deep cuts.
This austerity budget makes Zero Sense.
Press release: www.votecope.ca/news/zero-se...
#vanpoli #FightForVancouver
This austerity budget makes Zero Sense.
Press release: www.votecope.ca/news/zero-se...
#vanpoli #FightForVancouver
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The next Vancouver municipal election will be held Oct. 17, 2026.
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🥯 🌿 DOGE MAGA COP CULT 🌿 🥯
🥯 🌿 DOGE MAGA COP CULT 🌿 🥯
Vancouver's 2026 draft budget has PASSED.
Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.
Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.
Full story to come.
Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.
Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.
Full story to come.
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Don't give your business to
🥯 🌿 DOGE MAGA COP CULT 🌿 🥯
🥯 🌿 DOGE MAGA COP CULT 🌿 🥯
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A vision of our future under the mayor's austerity+police program.
If only the police dept could issue building permits...
If only the police dept could issue building permits...
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
A vision of our future under the mayor's austerity+police program.
If only the police dept could issue building permits...
If only the police dept could issue building permits...
I am trying to describe the BC Ostrich Cult Convoy to our 12-week-old and he wont stop spitting up. This as we want to take him to see his 102-y-o great grandpa in Edmonton but AB is so backward that it soured North America's measels-free designation. And he can't get vaxxed till 6 months.
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I am trying to describe the BC Ostrich Cult Convoy to our 12-week-old and he wont stop spitting up. This as we want to take him to see his 102-y-o great grandpa in Edmonton but AB is so backward that it soured North America's measels-free designation. And he can't get vaxxed till 6 months.
Lizza?...Nuzzi.......... Nuzzi?...Lizza............... Lizza? Nuzzi?.......
November 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Lizza?...Nuzzi.......... Nuzzi?...Lizza............... Lizza? Nuzzi?.......
I think I'm pretty set on Avi Lewis for leader of the NDP
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I think I'm pretty set on Avi Lewis for leader of the NDP
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thinking about this quote from David Graeber’s Utopia of Rules and thankful for reporting like this
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
thinking about this quote from David Graeber’s Utopia of Rules and thankful for reporting like this
Virginia's next next dem governor is currently the sustainability officer aboard this boat or something
Epstein’s War
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Virginia's next next dem governor is currently the sustainability officer aboard this boat or something
My theory is that all these serifs got chopped and mislabeled as apostrophes during the Sans Revolution of the 90s, and now autocorrect has some deal to liquidate their stocks through incorrectly changing the possessive pronoun "its" to "it's."
Sort of like those late-season episodes of Foyle's War
Sort of like those late-season episodes of Foyle's War
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My theory is that all these serifs got chopped and mislabeled as apostrophes during the Sans Revolution of the 90s, and now autocorrect has some deal to liquidate their stocks through incorrectly changing the possessive pronoun "its" to "it's."
Sort of like those late-season episodes of Foyle's War
Sort of like those late-season episodes of Foyle's War
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This is when he was passing the motion to audit non-profit organizations in the Downtown Eastside
why does Sim fear transparency of the city’s budget
why does Sim fear transparency of the city’s budget
Ken Sim (Feb 25 2025): “i think transparency is incredibly important. this is something that shouldnt be feared. we talk about transparency all the time. if we support transparency, I think we support it everywhere. you cant pick and choose.”
November 13, 2025 at 3:11 AM
This is when he was passing the motion to audit non-profit organizations in the Downtown Eastside
why does Sim fear transparency of the city’s budget
why does Sim fear transparency of the city’s budget
I wonder if Brian Montague feels like one of those remote shepherds who values his civic duty and treks across vast expanses and mountain passes to cast a vote in the village for an austerity budget with $50 million (more) for the local cops
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I wonder if Brian Montague feels like one of those remote shepherds who values his civic duty and treks across vast expanses and mountain passes to cast a vote in the village for an austerity budget with $50 million (more) for the local cops
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Feeling inspired by and grateful to my fellow Vancouver residents today for organizing en masse against a budget so sloppy and craven that anyone else would be fired for presenting it at their work.
NEW: The marathon session of Council has resumed after a break for dinner. Speaker #107 of 630+ now up.
ICYMI, Councillor Orr is providing regular updates on speakers.
You can also watch Council live here: www.youtube.com/live/7GvbDBa...
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts
ICYMI, Councillor Orr is providing regular updates on speakers.
You can also watch Council live here: www.youtube.com/live/7GvbDBa...
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Feeling inspired by and grateful to my fellow Vancouver residents today for organizing en masse against a budget so sloppy and craven that anyone else would be fired for presenting it at their work.
Sean Orr has been summarizing every speaker (almost all in opposition) on Ken Sim and ABC's MAGA budget. $50 Million for cops, cuts for everyone else, and a property tax freeze.
Absolute goons. Tacky greedy disingenuous incurious lazy cold-hearted leaches of late-stage capitalism
Absolute goons. Tacky greedy disingenuous incurious lazy cold-hearted leaches of late-stage capitalism
Continuing budget hearing. Speaker 94: my love for city compels me to speak. I’m angry but also afraid. Increasingly unliveable. Decries lack of transparency. How do we know more from whistleblowers? Claiming that these aren’t cuts isn’t true. Vancouver deserves better
November 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Sean Orr has been summarizing every speaker (almost all in opposition) on Ken Sim and ABC's MAGA budget. $50 Million for cops, cuts for everyone else, and a property tax freeze.
Absolute goons. Tacky greedy disingenuous incurious lazy cold-hearted leaches of late-stage capitalism
Absolute goons. Tacky greedy disingenuous incurious lazy cold-hearted leaches of late-stage capitalism
It's a bit of BS that we are just supposed to stop talking about the Edmund Fitzgerald, its wreck, and the song written about it, all because it's not Nov 10 2025 anymore
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
It's a bit of BS that we are just supposed to stop talking about the Edmund Fitzgerald, its wreck, and the song written about it, all because it's not Nov 10 2025 anymore
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I was interviewed as part of the CBC & @antihate.ca's investigation that exposed a covert neo-Nazi gathering involving MMA gym owners, coaches and recruiters for fascist fight clubs.
www.sportspolitika.news/p/mma-neo-na...
www.sportspolitika.news/p/mma-neo-na...
MMA figures exposed at covert neo-Nazi event in Canada
I was interviewed as part of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) investigation into the fusion of mixed martial arts and extremist ideology in Canada.
www.sportspolitika.news
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I was interviewed as part of the CBC & @antihate.ca's investigation that exposed a covert neo-Nazi gathering involving MMA gym owners, coaches and recruiters for fascist fight clubs.
www.sportspolitika.news/p/mma-neo-na...
www.sportspolitika.news/p/mma-neo-na...
Why have a sustainability and climate dept when instead we can give money to cops and talk on podcasts about pouring pool water over a hypothetical coolant loop at a hypothetical computer that metaphorically mines "coins" with a Shiba Inu on them?
ABC are not only dangerous, they're lazy too
ABC are not only dangerous, they're lazy too
SCOOP: Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes in his proposed 2026 budget.
Great source work by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson to uncover this
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/n...
Great source work by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson to uncover this
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/n...
Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Why have a sustainability and climate dept when instead we can give money to cops and talk on podcasts about pouring pool water over a hypothetical coolant loop at a hypothetical computer that metaphorically mines "coins" with a Shiba Inu on them?
ABC are not only dangerous, they're lazy too
ABC are not only dangerous, they're lazy too
The other cool thing about the Edmund Fitzgerald is that Baby Boomers, Silent Gen, heck even the Greatest Generation somehow had no hangups with her pronouns, even back in the 70s. She was a ship carrying iron ore, called Edmund, and she was the pride of the American side.
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The other cool thing about the Edmund Fitzgerald is that Baby Boomers, Silent Gen, heck even the Greatest Generation somehow had no hangups with her pronouns, even back in the 70s. She was a ship carrying iron ore, called Edmund, and she was the pride of the American side.
The best part of Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald is when Gord sings, "Whinsuppehrteimkheim..."
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The best part of Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald is when Gord sings, "Whinsuppehrteimkheim..."
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ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota